Descartes and the Last Scholastics / / Roger Ariew.

The ongoing renaissance in Descartes studies has been characterized by an attempt to understand the philosopher's texts against his own intellectual background. Roger Ariew here argues that Cartesian philosophy should be regarded as it was in Descartes's own day—as a reaction against, as w...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]
©1999
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.) :; 2 tables, 4 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • 1. Descartes among the Scholastics
  • PART I. Context
  • 2. Descartes and the Scotists
  • 3. Ideas, in and before Descartes with Marjorie Grene
  • 4. The Cartesian Destiny of Form and Matter with Marjorie Grene
  • 5. Scholastics and the New Astronomy on the Substance of the Heavens
  • PART II. Debate and Reception
  • 6. Descartes, Basso, and Toletus: Three Kinds of Corpuscularians
  • 7. Descartes and the Jesuits of La Fleche: The Eucharist
  • 8. Condemnations of Cartesianism: The Extension and Unity of the Universe
  • 9. Cartesians, Gassendists, and Censorship
  • 10. Scholastic Critics of Descartes: The Cogito
  • Appendix: Gilson’s Index Indexed
  • Bibliography
  • Index